Out there for some. Its wednesday, the 8th of may. Our main story. The parents of 11 children, who died after what they say were the failings of social media, have called on rishi sunak and keir starmer to do more to protect young people online. In an open letter, they say theyre disappointed by the lack of ambition shown by the regulator, ofcom, which has today set out its plans to force Tech Companies to make their platforms safer. Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports. I want to know what theyve got to say, and i want them to meet people with lived experience. Its really important to try and understand what ofcom are doing because from the outside they seem to be doing so little, which is ridiculous and frustrating. Brianna and molly, their short lives spurring their parents on to try and make the online world a safer place for all children. We showed them posts and pictures, easy to find on social media of self harm, suicide and eating disorders. Had you, um. Had you seen conten
First, u. S. Whistleblower edward made a personal plea president on from barack obama. The call for clemency coincided release of the new film by oliver stone, which tells the story of his life. Exiled in moscow, would face 30 years in jail if found of espionage. In 2013, he made public tens of thousands of classified to demonstrate how the u. S. Agency was carrying out mass surveillance on american citizens. Critics say he endangeringed the lives of u. S. Agents working something he denied. Iswhistle blowing lastracys safeguard resort, when all of the checks and the publicil has no idea whats going on. Reaction toets get that. Phillip, washington, snowden has lots of people rooting for him right now. His supporters say he did his a service by making those documents public. Phillip there are a lot of people on his side, not necessarily a majority of the american people. Edward snowden himself believes he should be given the president ial pardon. He believes he did something good for th
59 people are missing. And barbecue, the families thanks to a savings scheme in south africa. The u. N. Envoy to yemen says peace talks will reconvene on january the 14th after negotiations in switzerland ended without agreement. Earlier, Saudi News Agency reported that one saudi civilian and two indian workers were killed in nadran by rockets fired from yemen. The Saudi Led Coalition on the outskirts of the capitol and progovernment forces say they are advancing towards sanaa which is held by the houthirenals after seizing other towns from them in recent days. Despite a weeklong ceasefire which was supposed to be in force since tuesday when peace talks began. U. N. Special envoy for yemen has been speaking at a News Conference in the past half hour. As of now, until we meet at the next round of talks, we have decided to hold this on the 14th of january from now until that round, we will have the utmost efforts with all of the parties concerned in order to maintain the ceasefire or tru
A very high level. Some are saying its one of the biggest storms ever to hit our country. It built very rapidly,ed a briefing with secretary of Homeland Security and the administrator of fema and we are watching Hurricane Michael. Its just hitting shore now. Winds are going up to close to 200 miles an hour. Category 4. You dont hear about that. Its the most powerful recorded storm to strike the Florida Panhandle ever. It will bring with it anywhere from 150 mile to almost 200 mile an hour winds. The storm surges could be up to 15 feet. Additional rainfall could also produce Flash Flooding at the highest levels. We have been in constant communications with governor rick scott of florida. With all the authorities in the various states. Were very well prepared for massive amounts of food and we have First Responders all over, the Electrical Companies are staged and ready to go in after the storm. Over a thousands trucks. We have large amounts of food and water and Everything Else that you